Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-03
COLUSA COUNTY.
Glance at the Area and General Pro-
ductions of this Little Empire.

"a Glance Ihe area and General Pro-
ductions of this Little Empire.
In the center Of this garden of the Pa
citic Slope is Colusa, the banner wheat
county Of the world. 1t has an area greater
than some of the smaller States of the
Union, and it produces more breadstufs
than either of thirty-ive of our States
and Territories There are only twelve
States in the Union which produce as
much wheat as this county; and there are
only four States that produce as much
barley rs Colusa county does. The wheat
OF this county would fill $4,000 ears and
make $50 trat loads More ..ed wheat
is sown each year than is grown in many
of our States. The wheat yield of this
county would furnish the standing armies
of France, Germany and Austria with
bread rations for whole year. No other
single section in the world can show such
n production of breadstufis as can this
county, to which attention is invited. The
area of this banner county is 4 princely
one, being larger than many of the princi-
palities Of Europe. 1t extends east and
west fifty miles, and north and south sixty
| miles and contains nearly 100000 acres.
1t has every typographical feature of
plains, valleys, uplands, bluffs, hills and
high mountains. In this unexcelled
county is
WILLOWS, THE JUNCTION CITY,"
And her tributary country. This tributary
country is larger than many of the coun-
ties of the State, and has natural re-
sources. when thoroughly developed, to sIs-
| tain 100000 prosperous people, and it has
possibilities, when realized, to make the
junction city a great commercial center
with 10000 people. This region has
| every resource of soil and climate 1t has
| a wide area of alluvial land extending
from beyond the Sacramento river to the
foothills This alluvial belt is thirty
miles wide and has deep soils that produce
every textile food and forage plant to per-
fection. This alluvial section has some of
the largest and most famous ranches in the
world-ranches that annually produce
their tens Of thousands of bushels Of wheat
and barley, and some Of them figuring in
the hundreds of thousands On this rich
belt are
HUNDREDS OF PRINCELY HOMES,
Filled and surrounded with every comfort
and luxury known TO our civilization.
There are large houses, with wide, shady
porches. sheltering groves of fig, walnut,
elm and palm trees, rare towering shrubs,
and banks OF semi-tropic flowers. There
are great barns, corrals and granaries.
fiocks and herds, and there are broad acres
as far as the eye can reach, which in win
ter and spring are made a vivid green by
growing grain, and in summer are fields of
FURNISHED gold in color. The foothills
should be seen to be known These are
sloplng uplands that rise in long, undulat-
ing lines, and break into SUGGESTIONS of
finely rounded bluffs, at the feet of which |
are winding valleys. These bluffs rise
higher and higher, till they attain the |
dignity of hills, divided from each other
by wider and deeper valleys. West of the |
foothills are the mountains of the Coast
Range, which IN places rise to an eleva-
ton OF 5000 feet. In this section there are |
high and vide mountain ranges, great for |
ests OF pine, tir and cedar, deep gorges.
dark canyons and rushing mountain !
streams. All through the broad plains. |
with their wealth OF green or gold. the |
undulating uplands, rising till they break |
into billowy hills, covered with The YER
dure and bloom of myriads of bIossoming
plants, whose varied tints melt and blend |
into each other; the deep valleys winding
around the hills, which are crowned with |
oak, manzanita and ntidroIfa growths. and |
the great mountains and their dense for
ests make a varied scenery unexcelled on
earth
DURABILITY OF SOIL.
The soil needs no other testimonial to its |
wonderful fertility than its enormous pro-
duction of cereals given above. 1t was in |
this country, tributary to Willows, that the
first grain of the upper Sacramento valley
was raised. That is more than forty years
ago, and in some places there has been a
succession of groupings ever since, with no
perceptibie decrease in the crop rate No
other soils known to the plow have shown
more lasting qualities than those around
Willows. They are the weatherings and
wasbings of the gsest ranges on alJ rides,